NME’s Best Albums of 2012

Well here’s something that’s a bit good. In fact, here are fifty things that are a bit good. NME have just released their 50 Best Albums Of 2012 issue – this is as comprehensive a list of the new music you really ought to be listening to right now as you will read anywhere.

Come for big hitters like xx, Jake Bugg and Frank Ocean, stick around for superstars in waiting like Mac Demarco, Howler, King Arthur’s Sandals and Pond (we made one of those up, can you tell which one?). And what’s Number One?